U.S.-West Bank Workshop "Nanotechnology for advanced material and devices", Nablus, December 2010; West Bank, Israel

1013836 Nayfeh描述：该奖项是为了支持将于2010年12月在约旦河西岸举行的美国-约旦河西岸纳米结构先进材料研讨会。组织者是伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校物理系的Munir Nayfeh博士和约旦河西岸纳布卢斯AlNajah国立大学化学系的Hikmat Hilal博士。研讨会将汇集美国和约旦河西岸(巴勒斯坦)的专家，讨论纳米技术的各个方面，探索合作的方法，并确定未来联合活动的领域。为期四天的研讨会将涵盖纳米技术的各个领域，包括合成、表征和应用。讲习班将包括访问西岸的几个具有科学价值的地点。会议的目标是首先促进美国和巴勒斯坦在纳米技术研究、教育、培训、创业和商业化领域的合作，其次讨论建立一个服务于巴勒斯坦大学、研究机构、普通学校教育和工业的国家纳米技术卓越科学中心的建议。这一活动承诺为美国和约旦河西岸(巴勒斯坦)带来各种互惠互利，增加研究和教学、技术转让和创造就业的机会。智力价值：在小型化后，材料通常会获得散装材料所没有的改进和新颖的特性，如改进的机械、电学、光学和化学特性，并变得更轻、更坚固和更便宜。纳米技术是一个工业化国家和发展中国家都可以参与发展前沿的领域，因此有利于国际合作。纳米技术研究的动力不仅是阐明材料在微型化到固态和分子状态之间的过渡状态时的性质，而且还利用这种性质以更低的成本制造更好的产品，并具有新的功能，从而提高生活质量。更广泛的影响：拟议的项目旨在为美国科学家、研究生和本科生提供文化培训以及国际经验和视角。它将通过NSF赞助的研究刺激美国科学家增加与中东大学的国际合作部分。讲习班还旨在促进该区域的科学协作和重要的智力桥梁，以及中东关键地区的个人、机构和国家一级的团体之间的重要知识桥梁。最后，希望这次研讨会将鼓励建立网络和合资企业。至少四名美国初级科学家和学生将参加研讨会，并参观约旦河西岸至少三个学术和研究机构。

1013836 NayfehDescription: This award is to support a US-West Bank Workshop on Nano-Structured Advanced Materials, to be held in the West Bank in December 2010. The organizers are Dr. Munir Nayfeh, Department of Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Dr. Hikmat Hilal, Department of Chemistry, AlNajah National University, Nablus, West Bank. The workshop will bring together experts from the US and West Bank (Palestine) to discuss various aspects of nanotechnology, explore ways to collaborate and identify areas for future joint activities. The four-day workshop will cover various nanotechnology areas including synthesis, characterization, and applications. The workshop will include visits to several locations of scientific interest in the West Bank. The goal of the meeting is first to foster collaboration between the US and Palestine in the area of nanotechnology research, education, training, entrepreneurship, and commercialization, and second to discuss proposals for establishing a national center for scientific excellence in nanotechnology that serves Palestinian universities, research organizations, general school education as well as industry. The activity promises a variety of mutual benefits for both the US and the West Bank (Palestine) that increases opportunities in research and teaching, tech transfer and job creation. Intellectual Merit: Upon miniaturization, material often acquires improved and novel properties not found in bulk, such as improved mechanical, electrical, optical, as well as chemical properties, and becomes lighter, stronger and cheaper. Nanotechnology is a field in which both industrialized and developing countries can participate at the cutting edge of development and as such is conducive to international collaboration. The impetus of nanotechnology research is not only the elucidation of the nature of material when miniaturized to a regime at the transition between the solid and molecular states, but also the exploitation of this nature for manufacturing better products at lower cost and with new functions allowing the improvement of the quality of life. Broader Impacts: The proposed project is intended to provide cultural training and international experience and perspectives for US scientists, graduate and undergraduate students. It will stimulate US scientists with NSF-sponsored research to add international collaborative components with universities in the Middle East. The workshop is also intended to stimulate scientific collaboration and important intellectual bridges in the region and between groups at individual as well as institutional and state levels from key parts in the Middle East. Finally, it is hoped that this workshop will encourage networking and joint ventures. At least four US junior scientists and students will participate in the workshop, and visit at least three academic and research institutions in the West bank.